That's some gooooood crank.
Jan. 6th, 2012 12:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingNew Hampshire Republican party wants to pass a new law: "All members of the general court proposing bills and resolutions addressing individual rights or liberties shall include a direct quote from the Magna Carta which sets forth the article from which the individual right or liberty is derived,"
Of course, they have no idea what the Magna Carta says, or what the justification would be for requiring American laws to justify themselves in terms of an 800-year-old British law. But they insist it's TOTALLY not about preventing a gay marriage law on the grounds of the Magna Carta not mentioning homosexuality, not at all.
Of course, they have no idea what the Magna Carta says, or what the justification would be for requiring American laws to justify themselves in terms of an 800-year-old British law. But they insist it's TOTALLY not about preventing a gay marriage law on the grounds of the Magna Carta not mentioning homosexuality, not at all.
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Date: 2012-01-06 05:54 am (UTC)I'm pretty sure that he has no fucking idea A) what an homage is or B) how badly this would fuck the state of New Hampshire.
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Date: 2012-01-06 06:18 am (UTC)The Canadian side of the Niagara peninsula are going through all the details of the battles, and the history, and what it meant that the Americans started a war, invaded them, were completely destroyed - to the point where the Canadian troops counterattacked all the way to DC and sacked the Pink House (it got rebuilt in white).
The American side are ignoring all that, waving flags, and claiming they *won* because the terms of their surrender included status quo ante.
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Date: 2012-01-06 08:17 am (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRwiH18QwpU
(Three Dead Trolls - War of 1812)
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Date: 2012-01-06 11:23 am (UTC)Of course they also insist Reagan was a good President, so I presume they're from some alternate reality.
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Date: 2012-01-06 02:22 pm (UTC)Now, now. That's only half the story, isn't it? We invaded Canada twice, the first time during the American Revolutionary War, when our hardy Continental Army attacked in two columns that seized Montreal and pursued the routed general Carleton to Quebec...
Where we were roundly defeated, decimated, and sent running home.
It's pretty clear to anybody who bothers looking into it that Canadians are the Fremen of North America. Most Americans think you're all about public medicine and being polite, but underneath, the snow has burned the fear out of you. ;)
[Incidentally, The US declaration of war against Britain in 1812 wasn't, I think, unreasonable. Invading Canada, though, was at the very least a stupid, stupid idea. Fool me once, can't get fooled again, etc.]
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Date: 2012-01-06 03:30 pm (UTC)a) the attacking commanders hadn't made the most elementary strategic blunders possible
b) they'd realised that the loyalists who left for Canada after the revolution *did not*, in fact, secretly realy want to be Americans.
(Also: Relying on the British to be busy with Napoleon forever? Not a good assumption.)
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Date: 2012-01-06 06:05 pm (UTC)Well, it worked for Wolfe at Quebec and that victory was in living memory... though I don't know how influential it would've been.
-- Steve's seen speculation that Wolfe's scaling of the bluffs was actually an attempt at "suicide by battle" which actually succeded in both aims.
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